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that's while when we file, they already take so long to do the commission and then we changed our -- a few times already. the first architectural project for us was out of town so that's why the project was delayed and delayed. on the conditional use, we already followed all the procedures once they give us the approval and we did. they're saying that if everything is on progress they will continue to give us the extension. and i have a document showing that severing on progress so you guys can tell -- from 2006 we submitted seven, nine, and also 2010, we still have an email with the planning department because i keep checking why the status take so long. and then they're saying that we didn't submit anything but that's not true. i have a plan that's already submitted. i have three plans with me. the official is saying that the plan is not accurate. but not right. everything is in there. so if they have any comment they should let us know. it's not just -- you know, passing over for -- and then let us know it's got this approval. commissioner fung: i hear what you're saying on that bu

i'm sorry i am taking so long. and we will be glad. we need to do more gun buy backs. >> i have more questions for you. did you want to say something? we moved on. it was only in regard to expansion. there was a supplemental buy back and now they are in the planning stages. so, while it's been pretty tried and tested. it's still relatively new. they are different in some regard in their texture complexion and i think that there is on going discussion about evaluating the impact that those crn's are having in those neighborhoods. i think folks have their eyes on it. they are a tremendous asset. and those most at risk. we support the work and want to be supporting those things have a maximum impact. >> you are a senior aide

of tax paying citizens it's the liberal version of the tea party but i'm just wondering what took so long for it to form here in this casket with me as armand we were not to d.c. uncut co-founder ron thanks so much for joining us now tell me about us and what what's the overall goal here the u.s. and cut is a new grassroots movement that organizes through online social media twitter facebook us on or and what we're really protesting is demanding corporations pay their fair share just like the rest of us you know i pay your taxes i pay my taxes why don't they pay their taxes and we're hoping that the corporations will own up and and their practices of corporate tax avoidance so that all of us don't have to face the severe budget cuts that we've been all been facing at the state and federal level for so long that's all slated to be slated to be on the docket very soon let's get real here though corporations are never going to own up to it on their own right that's why the public has to come out that's why you have to put pressure on them so you know what do you think could happen with us an

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what the heck took so long? i mean, really, you know, this is about accountability, and the ig's doing their job and looking at it and bringing things, and the best you can say -- and i understand what you say is they embrace the audit. that means they they've told you everything's going to be okay, and we're inherently skeptical. can you tell me what took so long for usaid to step to the plate and start asking the question, where are our contractors that aren't presently responsible? >> i can only speculate. based on what we've seen over the years, but i would say that they might describe the problem as staffing, as iraq and afghanistan were getting off the ground there are tremendous responsibility that aid had for implementing programs, and they weren't getting the adequate resources that were tracking as far as personnel and contracting officers and things like that. i would think they felt like that. i'm going to take a little bit, just a little bit of responsibility ourselves in that historically on our in

so that is what's taking so long to clean up. again, that's the connector ramp southbound 880 to southbound 238. they are giving us an estimated time of re-opening about 5:15. so for right now traffic is still light. we're not seeing huge backups because of it. and the main lines of the freeway up and down 880 this is live look at the coliseum. i'll step out of the way so you can see the traffic. taillights northbound towards downtown oakland. so far free-flowing this morning in either direction. but again, that traffic alert is in effect in san leandro. a little bit of overnight roadwork including some across the stretch of the dumbarton bridge. sounds like it's westbound 84 from the radio towers to the decline section of the bridge. they are supposed to wrap that up around 5:00 this morning so various lanes blocked until then. no problems 101 from morgan hill. out of downtown san jose, the northbound lanes of 280 look great. still quiet along the peninsula. mass transit is on time for bart, ace, muni metro and caltrain. remember

it at least not that heavy soaking rain we've had for so long.going to be light rain tomorrow, definitely whether to get out and enjoy for next week. by wednesday, thursday and into friday highs back in the '70s with sunshine. i can't wait. >>vicki: the sun, we could all use a little bit of that terry and good night everybody, see when the morning.

we bailed out the banks here we are it's already march of two thousand and eleven why did it take so long for this type of a movement to form we saw the tea party but that is you know completely drifted off kilter off message into something other than good what it began as a why did it take so long yeah. you know i mean in my opinion maybe part of it is just the fact that right now is you know the budget cuts are really are really becoming a really looming and it's kind of hitting home for a lot of folks who are finally seeing some kind of action some type of austerity measures come their way to exactly right i think another thing is maybe a lot of the energy that. you know that people who are looking for you know for for more justice for fair deal for the american people a lot of that energy you know went into the obama campaign and then afterwards maybe we were you know kind of waiting around for the administration to take the kind of leadership that we were expecting didn't happen and now i think folks are waking up to the fact that you know they need to take you know the reins of this

in the unrest in libya and jackson banneker look this is this is the issue that's been around for so long for more than three and a half decades now it's a sore spot it should not be there unfortunately there's a very strong constituency in congress against repealing it and every time there's another effort to repeal it these people who are congressman pile on other issues of their demands from russia in order to do that repeal i think that the administration didn't want to do so so did the bush administration incidentally so so did the clinton administration but it is a tough thing to push through congress all right and how right now would you assess the status of the reset between russia and united states. i think it's pretty strong one thing that's interesting i'm attending an oil conference right now i'm actually in houston and one thing that i'm hearing is that when oil men consider the trouble now going on in the middle east it makes them think that working in russia is a lot easier one one earth for example the c.e.o. of total of the french oil company speaks of russia as a place t

tribes and they're locked in rivalry with each other why has gadhafi held power for so long because gadhafi belongs to a small tribe. this tribe took power in a town it's a neighbor to penetrate all pours controlled state it's a cure the balance between the tribes i mean the tip is the and the rest are all the other tribes. kept hold for so long because the other tribes were afraid intertribal infighting would ensue after gadhafi. again i don't want to say that everything will happen precisely in this way for of course the chances that libya will exist because of the rivalry between the regions on the one hand because of the rivalry between the tribes on the other do exist. less than two years ago at the g eight summit in world leaders sat at the same table with talks huge. business deals gaddafi felt free to set up tents on the lawns and the a government buildings but everybody knew back then who they were dealing with why is it only now that they've started talking of human rights violations in libya and the need for radical change for. libya has an organization called the national oil co

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nuclear watchdog wondering why it's taking members so long to react to the atomic danger on folding in japan. the u.s. says it's unlawful by the mountain top of the south for she remembered the troubles may have started on the drawing board the american from behind the power stations designed. libyan opposition supporters called for an end to the month long bonds in the country russia pushes for a ceasefire solution but the u.n. is yet to make an roof. for the libyan leader insists the trouble in his country is down to criminals bolstered by al qaeda. he talks face to face with colonel gadhafi . we're glad that the view is about to drop costing three languages a rabid english and have an opportunity to hear your voice we would like you to describe what has been going on i live here and there have been many strange ideas of what has been going on there. or situation radically different from what's transpired in tunisia egypt yemen bahrain qatar saudi arabia and other arab countries what's happened or what is happening in the arab countries has nothing to do with what is going on in liby

with their money tribes and they're locked in rivalry with each other why has gadhafi held power for so long because gadhafi belongs to a small tribe that could opt for this tribe took power in a town it's good it was unable to penetrate all pours to control the entire state that secured the balance between the tribes i mean the tip is the and the rest are all the other tribes so gadhafi kept hold for so long because the other tribes were afraid that intertribal infighting would ensue after gadhafi could out for left again i don't want to say that everything will happen precisely in. this way but of course the chances that libya will explode because of the rivalry between the regions on the one hand and because of the rivalry between the tribes on the other do exist. so what is translated less than two years ago at the g eight summit in the world leaders sat at the same table with gaddafi and talks huge business deals that duffy felt free to set up tents on the lawns and the a government buildings but everybody knew back then who they were dealing with why is it only now that they've started

remaining to hold the unstable now applause all eyes turn to the new york far as he was taking them so long to react to the atomic testing john folding in japan. the u.s. says it's along by the mounting problems and focus of the troubles way of stall sales of the touring for the american behind the power station. position supporters call for an end to the monk long thought of the country russia pushing for a cease fire resolution the u.n. is yet to make. the libyan leader insists the trouble and his country is down to criminals bolstered by al qaeda next face to face with me. we're glad that you broadcasting in three languages robert english and spanish have an opportunity to hear your voice we would like you to describe what has been going on i mean here and there have been many strange ideas of what has been going on then. and or situation radically different from what's transpired in tunisia egypt yemen bahrain qatar saudi arabia and other arab countries and what's happened and what is happening in the our countries has nothing to do with what is going on or libya and those countries the

since it was so long awaited, and it is so sweet to here, it is once again my pleasure to utter those magical words in succession that this city has been dreaming about hearing since the giants moved west, ladies and gentlemen, it is time to celebrate your 2010 world champion san francisco giants. [applause] we would like to take a moment to introduce several giants and special guests and san francisco dignitaries that have joined us today. first, please welcome the governor of the great state of california, the honorable arnold schwarzenegger. the chief of protocol, charlotte schulz. we are honored and delighted to have with us today mrs. gina mosconi and mrs. kathleen alioto. giants managing general partner and ceo bill neukom and his wife sally. the giants' president and chief operating officer larry fehr and his wife pam. giant's senior vice president and general manager brian sabian and his wife amanda. the wife of our skipper, mrs. kim bocce. former giants managing general partner, peter mcgowan. clubhouse manager mike murphy is here with his wife carol. also with us today, the

my energy in a structured way, and to give discipline and whatever talent i actually had, and for so long, i remember like it was yesterday -- for so long i felt like a loser kid who was missing out on everything good. and they showed me how much i really had going for me. and in part, because of them, and also because of my grandparents, things never completely came unraveled. and i escaped to beat the odds. well, let me just take a little drink here. i hope you like basketball. i'm -- how many here like basketball. i like the celtics a little better than the clippers and the lakers, but that's okay. don't hold that against me. i hope you like basketball because there's a lot in the book. i love to lose myself in the intensity of the game when i played. on the court, the chaos and letdowns of my life were completely out half my life. there were clear rules and boundaries i actually needed. i knew my abilities and how to use them when i played. i once told my coach, as a matter of fact, when i was younger, probably eighth or ninth grade, i wanted to wear knee pads. he told me, scott, list

in ninety years and seismographs were invented and incidentally they were invented in japan so they had a long history of recording earthquakes what's critical about this sort of quake is that the fault occurred on the pacific plate broken ruptured and thrust and so about ten million. honshu was about five hundred kilometers long so this is a huge section of the pacific plate boundary that's broken off and that's what gave rise to the big tsunami so the tsunami only one hundred one hundred k. east of sendai didn't take an exam to reach there it's a big earthquake now it's seven years since the asian tsunami tragedy how much better our people in the region are predicting the disasters and minimizing their own impacts. well that's a good question and i think the answer to it you would get a different answer from different sides knowledge and think we've certainly learned better with quakes we know where they happen we know that they will be larger earthquakes right around the pacific rim and if you call the. question is when will an earthquake of a particular size seven and i think we're no clos

can't hold for so long because the other tribes were afraid of intertribal infighting would ensue after that i feel like a duffer left again i don't want to say that everything will happen precisely in this way but of course the chances that libya will exist because of the rivalry between the regions on the one hand because of the rivalry between the tribes on the other do exist and if so. less than two years ago at the g eight summit in italy world leaders sat at the same table with gaddafi and talked huge business deals gaddafi felt free to set up tents on the lawns me a government buildings but everybody knew back then who they were dealing with why is it only now that they've started talking of human rights violations in libya and the need for radical change for. libya has an organization called the national oil corporation or an all seeing it's a huge state run actualize that controls the oil extraction and media concessions of handful of very small share so the is expected to go private and to be sold abroad for the companies and mail in particular british to some extent naturally

says that you can tax for the general welfare so long as it's one of the four types of constitutionally permitted taxes where you can get those images are very low or types i guess because that is its duties and imposed excise taxes and capitation taxes and then the income gap in the and then we amended it with the sixteenth amendment right but generally well know that this agreement or spending this supreme court made clear and us the butler nine hundred thirty six and helping feed davis and thirty seven but the general welfare clause has no government power in it whatsoever it is a limitation on tax and spending power not an empowerment of government that's the us supreme court and they've done it once then in that case then nothing would have been nothing would have been spent since nine hundred thirty six no absolutely not just spending for the general welfare the why are you talking of no lock it was nice to know fido better. products to say more about health or trade substantially i nine hundred thirty seven which is why i didn't help bring the davis which is nine hundred thirty s

entering the environment from these reactors that's a twenty four and a half thousand your half life so the long term health risks from this accident for the people of japan are truly horrendous are so you say absolutely there are some horrendous long term implications from radiation exposure here but the i.a.e.a. chief says the nuclear crisis is far from over with such a potentially die forecast or why do you think the nuclear global watchdog took so long to get involved because when it comes to iran on any nuclear issue the watchdog is all over it in in a second. my view is that it's not our u.n. nuclear watchdog the nuclear industry pujol the i.a.e.a. its principal objective is to promote the expansion of nuclear power since the start of the zines in one myself and colleagues in the anti-nuclear community and the nuclear research community we knew that this was a potentially catastrophic accident and what you saw was the i.a.e.a. was a rather relaxed so of media management approach to say we have confidence that everything is under control well actually after a monologue that it's it took you

and they're locked in rivalry with the jeweler when you are going to have a draft we held power for so longbecause gadhafi belongs to a small private could not for this type of power and it's run it's not good it was unable to penetrate all wars control the entire state it's secure the balance between the tribes i mean the tip is the could not for the rest or all the other tribes so gadhafi kept hold for so long because the other tribes were afraid of intertribal in fighting.

so long. it is there for and then in egypt or in tunisia where we had a nonviolent movements rather strong rather well or so it's true democrat and him and superior of their peoples and i think the situation in libya is stiffer and. backstage there must be very much action which we don't see in the german public and which we are not very well informed about we are just surprised to see a movement rather well organized and rather violent and militarily organized and i think. to a solution must be the big players in the background namely the u.s. the european union and the including russia should get together to talk about the situation and make proposals for a nonviolent solution otherwise really skeptical. and solution will be found but we are. we are voting very much for a nonviolent solution it's absolutely urgent but what the situation is now is clearly what you don't want to see but there is some sort of confusion if we look at it the decision to impose this no fly zone we saw earlier that

commissioner fung: i think you may want to put that into your long-term plans. it is not so much hardware, but access to a database. to have netbooks and other things is easy. it is access. i am sure it will be implemented long after item off the board -- i am off the board. commissioner peterson: on a related note, i would be very interested in electronic submission. i think it saves trees and time, and some labor costs. a probably asked this last year i do not understand the city attorney cost. it looks like a full-time salary almost charged to this department. i just need some enlightenment on that. how is that delegated? >> it has been a multi-year negotiation. for many years, the board had no work order with the city attorney and did not pay for their services at all. in the last few years, there has been the first time where those hours are being to regulated and an assessment of how many dollars need to be allocated for that cost. last year, we reduced work orders somewhat significantly and did not have enough money for it. this year, when we discussed the work order,

he and i go back so long, he probably remembers when i dated women. [laughter] i think this is long enough in where you can do the joke, mayor. becoming san francisco's highest-ranking chinese american official in 2005, still has really played a key role in the community. i know that he is as happy as anybody to be surpassed in that position, now having major league. we all celebrate your ascension. -- mayor lee. [no audio] [applause] [no audio][applause] the mayor talked about his great work. he has been groundbreaking in his environmental work. really, making sure that we bring environmentally sound energy production into the mainstream, not only here in the city and county of san francisco, but making that success the foundation for which the rest of us judge ourselves. as public officials from across the state are called to solve unprecedented problems, it is encouraging to know that phil will continue his work on behalf of good government policies and solutions. it is clear that he understands every dollar his office brings in leads to more fundin

there's just... there are arguments that the trajectory is so long, the arc of it is so long, that thebook is the only form where you have a chance to develop it. i like that. i realized, even when i was suffering-- and you've written books before, so you know how you suffer over certain chapters-- i thought, "this is really great. even though it's horrible, it's great." >> it's still pretty good. >> and i can't... i can't explain it. and certainly there's that thrill when you see the first one that's got a cover on it, and is in between the cardboard covers-- it is fabulous. and i like to have that. >> and you like getting out there. you like getting out and pound... you know, getting out, i mean, the reporter in you, from chicago that was doing those... covering the fires and the police beat, and all that kind of stuff, you still like being out on the road with the people? >> it's nice. it's nice, because also, you're not encumbered by all that extra technology. you walk up to people... >> oh, i know, that's right. >> ...you say, "hi. i am ray suarez, and i'm writing a book on blah-b

we just want to move step by step in this direction. >> what's taking it so long? >> staffs and community as well in our department. >> i want to move on a little bit. i want to talk about specifically police participation and i would like to ask lieutenant miranda. what do you think it would take to have more gun buy backs? >> if i can say one thing. i want to commend john tores. i think he's doing a wonderful job. he's doing a lot of intervention. i will be quick. i have a quick story for you. when this first started. with john tores. it was like someone was drawing a line. it was police department on one side. crn's on one side. correct me if i am wrong. what are they going to say? who is going to retailiate. after the first meeting. we started to each other. again, it's not a perfect world. neither are the police. i think john has done a great job. i know he needs more crn's. the more input he gets will be fantastic. >> thank you lieutenant. >> you know lieutenant, thank you for bringing that back up. we have something that is actually working. so, why don't we

the wrist of course they're going to go ahead because of the reasons that we've talked about for so long. the money it's gravy train will be lost if you lose the election. so we need that -- that multilateral, unified voice of the governments that have influence to develop the carrot stick it's the carrots and sticks, create the watch dog actions that will blow whistles when there are problems and do it early enough, create this thing early enough so you're not just waiting until the day to vote, say, wait a minute, there is something wrong here but we can actually watch and see how it unfolds. we'll know months in advance whether this is going to be a credible election and if the answer is no thenby can deploy. wait a minute, we will not support this. you will have to change this for anyone to take this seriously and then it's up to the congolese government to develop their own calculation about whether or not they want to reform it. so i think that's what we really -- that's one of the elements of many as ben said that we need to be engaged in to try to make a difference here. >> all r

and pinball machines, and everything seems to me to what standards would be there, so we do not have any objection as long as some of the equipment in the area is moved so that the pool table can be used freely. president newlin: ok. thank you. are the applicants here? come on up and introduce yourself. >> good evening, president, commissioners, staff. >> stephen. >> so this is pretty straightforward. commissioners, do you have any questions? do you have anything? >> i just want to address the permit officer's comments. things are taken care of. they have been taken care of or will be taken care of. president newlin: ok. vice chair joseph: the one that deals with minors, you are not letting them in anyway, are you? ok. commissioner meko: they take less than 25% of the space, and they are not the point of your business, just an added feature to improve your business. you are not opening a pool parlor or a pinball house where anything like that? ok. so it is really a minor consideration, so long as you do not have it lined up with this. president newlin: any public comment? >> hello, again. i am -- henry ma

♪ ♪ someone left the cake out in the rain ♪ ♪ i don't think that i can take it ♪ ♪ 'cause it took so longsting insight into the song. and he was saying that his father, in his teens, in the '60s, was going through a pretty horrible breakup of a relationship and was walking through macarthur park in los angeles and, unusually for l.a., it was snowing and somebody had fashioned a cake with birthday candles out of snow in the park. and he was going through this relationship just falling apart and he saw this cake, that it'd started to rain and this cake of snow was just starting to melt all over the park. and he thought it was a great metaphor for his relationship and would he ever find a cake as wonderful, or a relationship as wonderful again? so isn't it strange how serendipitous moments like that happen in life? we're going to move, now, into another great american songwriter -- i talk of paul simon -- and one of the finest songs, in my opinion, of the 20th century, and that's "bridge over troubled water." ♪ when you're weary ♪ feeling small ♪ when tears are in your eyes ♪ ♪ i will dry th

so that is not sustainable. i've been saying that for a long time. opponents said would not have to make layoffs. we could cover it. it is not sustainable. in our city, they pay nothing. not a penny. so i'm in negotiations now with the opoa, and we believe that in this next round of bargaining, the all the unions will have to go to different years because of tensions that were given earlier in the last decade are just not sustainable. on the other hand, i'm not into all the tension bashing. the pensions will actually only be a small part of the structural changes that we will have to make. some of the bigger changes, and you do not have this problem because you are both a city and county -- the city and county and school districts are going to have to merge some facilities and colocate some of our efforts and try not to duplicate efforts. and something we have been pioneering -- i have been holding joint cabinets with the school district. we are actually going to share some facilities. we're going to share some staff, and we are going to relocate some current staff to make the city safer. in a few

director rollins from my time as thurgood marshall as a parent and to see her in that environment so long ago, as a teacher and now really leading this community and really the values that i knew she had back then. i can again not tell you and lend my sincerest congratulations to you. you were doing exactly what you want to do and your students and families and staff are better for being in your presence. i congratulate you, allison. thank you so very much. [applause] >> i want to say thank you so much. it is a team that really makes this school happen and they are all right here in the room. thank you. thank you very much. i didn't hear -- roll call? >> thank you. [roll call vote] >> that's six ayes. >> congratulations. so it is a c.a.t. families move out of the board room, which i imagine you're going to do, because this is a good time to do it, because i will bust you if you are walking out in the middle of a presentation. would like the next group, the next charter to come up? this is item 112-22 sp 2. authorization grant or deny the renewal petition for the adult school. it has alrea

what took so long? >> apart from the natural creative process, the time that we were on tour.ere was a lot of label conflict and chicanery. this is a mix that led to three years. tavis: we have been counting the days. i don't want to terry here too long but it is worth asking, you said chicanery with the record level. how do record label politics get in the way? how do you get through that? >> i think that i have handled myself but very poorly. i have allowed myself to get depressed. it is a funny line when you walk in the creativity verses objectivity. you are in the music business. there are certain things you have to acquiesce to on the business side and certain decisions that you have to make for the purposes of serving the business side and being a business owner myself from this -- you really have to embrace the reality. i think in this situation, a level of it, level of the involvement of the record label and some of the things that were said and some of the moves that were taken were unprecedented for me. it really took me -- and let me conference with my business part

i will leave it at that not to make the report so long. there is and annual call for projects for prop k that is coming up which has a due date of march 25th, and that is for the programic aspects of prop k. those are the line items that include a lot of small items like the bicycle facilities, traffic signals and so on. we understand that those are items that tend to be of significant interest to you in your individual offices, and there four we plan to structure the approval of those items over a would--- two cycle period. we will bring them to you as an information item in may and then get approval in june to give you opportunity to interact with the democrats affected and give us guidance on how to get this prioritized in june. the clean air funds are up for a call for projects right now, which we issued on february 3. there is $750,000 available for projects like bicycle facilities, alternative fuel facilities, and ride sharing programs. those will come to you for approval also at the june meeting. and there is a safe routes to school

questions and they will be equally disappointed he clung to office with the supportg of angela merkel for so long. she might not have theacking of those people for these key elections. >> what happens to him now? he was until today the most popular politician. >> he might remain so. we will have to wait until we have reliable figures. early polls indicate that over 50% of germans wish he had stayed in office and had fought his fight longer. most people agree he is going to be waiting in the wings for an occasion to return to politics. people are beginning to talk about how the proverbial phoenix rising from the ashes. how long will people's memories be? he will return or try to. let me strike a note of caution. one of the elder statesman said yesterday it before he had resigned, his career has been under shadow and he will not escape that shadow. pretty much say across the board yesterday he might return to politics into my office but he will probably never be german chancellor and he had been cast as chancellor material. >> it will be interesting to see what happens after this. thank you for tha